Paul Ricken

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Paul Ricken in uniform
Paul Ricken

Paul Ricken (born June 27, 1892 in Duisburg , † October 24, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) was a member of the staff of the Mauthausen concentration camp and SS-Hauptscharführer .

Life

He lived in Essen-Rellinghausen, where he was a teacher for art education and a teacher. He joined the NSDAP in 1932 and the SS in 1935 (identification number 291617). In August 1939 he took up his duties in Mauthausen, in the identification service and in the accounting department until February 1944. In the identification service, inmates were photographed and Ricken documented or recreated scenes of camp life and was responsible for the photographs of the so-called escape attempts. Francisco Boix testified in his statements that pictures and scenes were adapted. From 1944 to 1945 he was transferred to the Leibnitz satellite camp , where he was deputy camp manager. He was responsible for the death march from Leibnitz to Ebensee . After the end of the war he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the American Military Tribunal in Dachau in the trial against the occupation of Mauthausen-Gusen ( USA against Eduard Dlouhy and others ) as part of the Dachau trials . On November 29, 1954, he was released on parole from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

Web links

Remarks

It is unknown whether the painter Paul Ricken, Dresden, and this are a person.

Movies

Literature by Paul Ricken

  • Good luck for! Ricken, Paul. - Essen [-Rellinghausen, Sundernholz 35]: P. Ricken, 1930
  • Ricken, Paul: Masken / Paul Ricken, Studienrat, Essen In: Art and Youth, ISSN 0451-081X. NF 11.1931, pp. 163-166
  • Paul Ricken: Color-tone research . In: Art and Youth . Volume 11, Issue 8. Eugen Hardt GmbH, Stuttgart August 1931, p. 211 ( online [accessed January 30, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Clara M. Oberle, Agnieszka Pufelska, Hildegard Frübis: Photographs from the camps of the Nazi regime: preservation of evidence and aesthetic practice . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20268-4 ( google.de [accessed on January 29, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b Paul Ricken: Masks . In: Art and Youth . 11th year, issue 1. Eugen Hardt GmbH, Stuttgart January 1931, p. 163 ( online [accessed January 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Zeno: Full text story: afternoon session. The Trial of the Major War Criminals before ... Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Photos by Paul Ricken. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  5. ^ Nazi Crimes on Trial. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  6. ^ Amy Schmidt, Gudrun Loehrer: The Mauthausen Concentration Camp Complex: WorldWar II and Postwar Records . In: National Archives and Records Administration (Ed.): REFERENCE INFORMATION PAPER . No. 115 . Washington, DC 2008, p. 380 (English, online [PDF]).
  7. ↑ Gregor Holzinger (Ed.): The second series: perpetrator biographies from the Mauthausen concentration camp . new academic press, 2016, ISBN 978-3700319788 , p. 126.
  8. ^ Great German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich. P. 56 , accessed on January 29, 2020 .
  9. ^ The Great German Art Exhibitions 1937 - 1944/45. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  10. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ricken, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German war criminal, Hauptscharführer of the SS
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1964
Place of death Dusseldorf